Otto I "the Great" 
Otto I "the was born in Saxony, Germany. Otto I "the's father was Heinrich I "the Fowler" and his mother was Matilda von Ringelheim. His paternal grandparents were Otto "The Illustrious" and Hedwige Von Sachsen; his maternal grandparents were Theodoric Dietrich and Ludmilla Ragnhildis. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Henry I 'the, I, Hedwige and Gerberga. He had a half-sister named Princess of the Saxons.General Notes
* King of Saxony
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Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-73), Holy Roman emperor (962-73), king of Germany (936-73), the son of the German king Henry I. After subduing an uprising of nobles incited by his brother, Otto consolidated his kingdom by granting duchies to faithful relatives and followers. In 951 he marched to Italy to assist Adelaide, the widowed queen of Lombardy, against Berengar II, who had usurped the kingdom. Otto defeated Berengar and married Adelaide, thereby becoming ruler of northern Italy. When he returned to Germany, he again crushed a rebellion of nobles led by his son Liudolf and halted a Hungarian invasion in 955. In 962 he was crowned Holy Roman emperor. In 963 he deposed Pope John XII and had Leo VIII elected in his stead. Otto sought to make the church subordinate to the authority of the empire but assisted in spreading Christianity throughout his domain. He negotiated unsuccessfully with the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires, but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II.
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- b.~ 0789 in Saxony d.~ 0851
- b.~ 0788 in East Saxony d.0843
- b.~ 0755
- b.0806 in Saxony d.6 SEP 864 in Saxony
- b.~ 0795 in Montfort, France
- b.0836 in Saxony d.30 NOV 912
- b.~ 0780 in Saxony
- b.0816 d.May 0913
- b.~ 0784 in Saxony
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.2 JUN 936 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.0805 d.0879
- b.0828 in Bayern, Bavaria d.22 SEP 880 in Ottingen, Bayern, Bavaria
- b.~ 0806 in Andech, Bavaria
- b.0863 in Saxony d.0899
- b.~ 0824 in Carinthia, Greece
- b.~ 0855 in Saxony d.24 DEC 903
- b.~ 0815
- b.~ 0840 in Bayern, Bavaria
- b.23 NOV 912 in Saxony, Germany d.7 MAY 973
- b.~ 0789 in Saxony d.~ 0851
- b.~ 0810 in Ringleheim, Memleben, Sachsen d.0891
- b.~ 0828 in Ringeheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany
- b.~ 0785 in Ringleheim, Memleben, Sachsen
- b.~ 0812 in Ringleheim, Memleben, Sachsen
- b.~ 0853 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover d.8 DEC 917
- b.~ 0800 in Ittergau, Hanover, Germany
- b.~ 0833 in Ringeheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany d.> 0909
- b.~ 0775 in Riparian, Hanover, Germany
- b.~ 0800 in Riparian, Hanover, Germany
- b.~ 0892 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hanover d.14 MAR 967/68 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 0774 in Walcheran, Germany d.0810 in Walcheran, Germany
- b.~ 0800 in Friesland, Germany d.0844 in Walcheran, Germany
- b.~ 0834 in Friesland, Germany d.> 0905
- b.~ 0868 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover
- b.0795 in Altdorf, Bavaria d.29 SEP 855 in Pruem, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.~ 0827 in Alsace-Lorraine, France d.8 AUG 869 in Piacenga, Italy
- b.~ 0778 in Tours, France d.20 MAR 850/51 in Abbaye D'erstein, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
- b.~ 0863 in Alsace-Lorraine, France d.26 OCT 907
- b.~ 0835
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They had a son named II.
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